Recent content by VaderSS

I'm heading down to Willow Springs on April 16th to do the Streetmasters Precision Cornering Workshop on the 17th. Just wondering if anyone else is. http://streetmasters.info/

First motorcycle trip of the year. I went to Yosemite this past weekend. It was amazing. Hardly anyone on the road, and the park was almost deserted. I took 49 from San Andreas to Mariposa Saturday, enjoying the Little Dragon along the way, and spent the night in Mariposa, then rode to Yosemite...

My fiance feels you really need to work on your technique. That was her second observation though. The first was, "What a moron." I had to agree, and I'm sure most of the people who saw it felt the same way. There were plenty around to witness it, beside the group of riders you were with...

This is the perfect step between MSF and track schools. Lee Parks teaches advanced techniques, but at parking lot speeds. The low speeds have the benefit of allowing real-time feedback from instructors and magnify every error to where it cannot be hidden. If you have read Total Control, then...

http://www.gearupproject.org/survey.html Results to date; http://www.gearupproject.org/survey/results.html

http://www.mercurynews.com/california-budget/ci_12454979?nclick_check=1 http://www.ktvu.com/news/19596396/detail.html Proposed park closures; The list pretty much covers most of the good parks. 1. Leo Carrillo State Park. 2. Los Angeles State Historic Park. 3. Los Encinos State Historic...

My daily-use boots are Oxtar TCS EVO Ti. I really love these boots, but the noise that the ankle protection makes is annoying. Not annoying enough to keep me from wearing, but lets just say I could never sneak up on anyone in them... These noise is pretty loud and sounds like a mix of...

I was so getting passed while doing the speed limit today, it's kind of sad I decided to try doing the speed limit from the Benicia Bridge to Cordelia. I had to rethink my plan while on the bridge because I almost got run over twice at 55. I sped up to 65, 10 over on the bridge, set the...

My primary area of responsibility at work is dealing with the Safety Instrumented Systems that protect life, property, and the production of the refinery. This means that I tend to focus on this one thing, which is in the category known as Layers of Protection, but it is not at all the only...

I'm originally from Louisiana, with a large portion of my motorcycling life spent in Texas. There, a corner is usually a 90 degree turn, and you have plenty of time to set up for it. Blind corners are fairly rare there as well. As you might imagine, moving here was a shocker when it came to...

Is there a good reference online for why hanging off and body position works the way it does? I know how it works, and can usually explain it, but I'm hitting a brick wall with someone who insists it is just style.

Hmmm, maybe I can do trackdays after all... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSVg3Gg4LmA

Ok, I'll admit that luck is something that plays a part in our lives. The problem is that most people give far too much control over to "luck." In the arena of motorcycling, when we crash, we often say we were unlucky, but more often than not, if we look at it closely, we were at least...

I was feeling a bit depressed Monday. I began a 4 week turnaround at the refinery where I work, and I don't know if I'll have much time for riding, beyond the commute. So far, I've been doing 12+ hour days so I have not hit Wooden Valley and Monticello after work like I often do. I figured out...

I just left Total Control ARC Level I. http://www.totalcontroltraining.net/index.html It is my desire to be able to ride through the twisties on a Honda GL1800 Goldwing with the skill that Yellow Wolf and a few others display. It is also my desire to be able to slow down to my current pace...